The clip is short, but it’s packed full of hopefulness and feels, so viewers may want to have a big box of tissues nearby.ĭr. Sanders then introduces herself and explains how she uses the Internet to gather intelligence from across the globe to find others who are experiencing the same rare symptoms as well as experts who may have some answers. Their ages and issues are wide ranging, but all of them have one thing in common - they want to have an official diagnosis.ĭr. The Diagnosis trailer reveals several of this season’s patients, including a 6-year-old girl who is inexplicably paralyzed for several seconds hundreds of times throughout the day, a Gulf War veteran with memory loss, a young woman who can't hold food or water down, and a man who flatlines when experiencing déjà vu, among other patients. Her New York Times Magazine column, also titled Diagnosis, has been running since 2002 and now the series is giving her a chance to take additional action in people’s lives. In 2009, she wrote Every Patient Tells A Story about how patient interviews contribute to diagnosis. and currently works for Yale Medical School. Sanders was a technical advisor behind the TV series House M.D. Sanders’ journey towards helping people on TV has been in the works for many years. And, with the strides that still need to be made in modern medicine, there’s undoubtedly plenty of people with complicated symptoms and no clear diagnosis who could use this type of series to inspire them to find answers.ĭr. There’s no indication that this is a simply a miniseries, so Netflix may decide to green light Diagnosis Season 2 based on viewers' responses. The seven episode docuseries, which debuts on Aug 16, will follow several patients with mysterious illnesses who enlist Dr. Lisa Sanders is bringing her medical expertise to Netflix with Diagnosis. The New York Times Magazine columnist Dr.

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